Let's start back on Friday morning. We left the church somewhere around 8 in the morning. I was in a car with Nathan, Zach, Stephen, Eirenee, Maddie, Josh, and some other people that I don't talk to. The car ride up was alright. It wasn't really anything special. I was uncomfortable for the majority of the ride and I couldn't sleep. I talked to Stephen and Eirenee for the most part. When we finally arrived at Ridge Haven (9 hours later) everyone was pretty excited.
Once we got out of the car we got our room assignments. Eirenee and I got a room all to ourselves. We started to unpack and then we went up to the game room. (Which was down a huge hill that we had to travel up and down all weekend). We played ping pong until it was time to eat dinner. We had lasagna for dinner and it was soooooooo good. The food there was amazing. After that we went to the meeting hall (which was down another hill then up one) and that's when I met Dean. Dean is probably the single most amazing person on the face of the earth. He's full of energy and pretty strange, but he's always funny to be around. All the churches played this bingo chart game thing, which I almost won, but I was 4 points shy of winning. After that we sang and were introduced to our speaker. He pretty much had the most legit voice on the face of the earth. It was so deep and awesome. We listened to him preach (it was super super good) then we learned that we were going to play a game of dodgeball. They explained all the teams and rules and what not then we walked to where we were playing and started. Our church lost the first game because one, our team was waaaay smaller than the one we played, and two the other team was a bunch of cheaters. Then we won our next game and we moved on to the final game. It was our church plus another church against the first church we played. The game was pretty intense. It went on for quite some time and I was pretty into it. After some time I looked around and there were 2 other people left on my team against about 10 on the other team. We played on and it came down to me against 5 people. (1 girl, 4 boys) I got the girl out first then proceeded to pick every guy off one by one. Finally, it was me against one other guy. I kept throwing the ball at him, and he kept dodging it. Finally, I threw one at him and he hit him, but then he started to bobble it and finally caught it. Even though I lost I got a reputation. I was known at the girl that beat all the boys. After that I was totally exhausted and pretty much went straight to bed.
On Saturday we had to wake up and be ready at 8 for a Bible study with our youth group. Eirenee and I were the first to be ready. So we were just sitting there chilling for a while until Mr. Storms decided to join us. Then the rest of the group slowly started to file in and we talked about what happened the night before. After that we went to have breakfast. After breakfast we went to the game room and played some cards. Not just anything though, we played Egyptian Rat Slap. Never ever play that game with a Burrows, a man who was previously in the marines, or just a hardcore guy in general. I was afraid that my hand was going to be broken. Well, after that we went to listen to Pastor John speak again and it was amazing again. We went to seminars after that about missions and such. Which was when I learned about refugees and how people help them. Which I really want to do. We then proceeded to have lunch. After that Eirenee, Stephen, and I had the brilliant idea to go on a hike. Eirenee took us down all these ridiculously paths and used pretty much all our energy. But Stephen almost feel into a waterfall so it was almost worth it. After that we had to go to our little activity. Basically, we played a cross between capture the flag and flag football. This game was ridiculous. We were playing all through the woods and let me tell you there were soooo many thorns in those woods. I got my legs allllll cut up. After two rounds of that game I was just totally drained. I had no energy left. After we were through with that game, which we lost, but it was okay because we played better, we went back to the game room and played Apples to Apples. Dear Lord, that game can get intense. I'm pretty sure it just consisted of all of us yelling. It was an experience. After the exciting game we had dinner then went to listen to Pastor John speak again. Then came pretty much the best part of the whole trip. After it was over we had a bonfire and a dance party thing. We danced so much. It was to all of those songs that have those dances everyone knows. (Cupid Shuffle, Cotton Eyed Joe, etc.) And we learned how to dance to 500 miles. It was extremely exciting. After that exciting adventure was over, Eirenee, Stephen, Nathan, Adam, Zach, Maddie, and I went back to our little building and played poker. After that I was pretty much just totally dead and went to bed.
The next morning we packed up then went to breakfast. After blue pancakes (nasty) we were off. The car ride home was pretty exciting. Stephen and I were the only one awake for a while so we just talked randomly. Then after people woke up me and Nathan started listening to music and we started singing and such. It was just a good ride home.
This might not have sounded exciting to you, but you don't even understand. It felt like we were there for a good week. It was soooooo much fun. We did more, but I can't exactly remember every single detail. It was just amazing. I'm not sure I've ever had such a good time. I'm definitely going back next year. (:
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